For analyzing any company like PACCAR from an investment perspective, its important to check the cash flow statement. This report provides details about cash inflows and outflows due to the company's business and investment activities, and summarize cash outflows for a given quarter. For PACCAR profits one has to check the income statement and for PACCAR debt one has to check the balance sheet. Items like capital purchases, bank loan payments etc. which have a direct impact on the cash position of a company come out through the statemement of cash flows and help an investor who undertakes the PACCAR stock analysis. PACCAR generated $2.56B cash from operating activities in 2015. PACCAR saw a outflow of $443M from investing activities for 2015. View details of PACCAR cash flows for latest & last ten financial years.

The statement of cash flows comprises of cash flow from financing, cash flow from operations and cash flow from investing activities. All the three can have an impact on the stock price. The PACCAR stock price history and PACCAR stock comparison chart inevitably reflect its cash flow situation.

PACCAR has cash of $2.02B on hand. A healthy amount of cash on hand is necessary for any company. Cash has an opportunity cost associated with it, and too much cash in bank may mean that the firm has no or limited growth plans. Hence its important to track the Net Change in Cash and Cash Equivalents along with the PACCAR stock price.

Cash Flow from operating activities: This is the cash that the company receives from ongoing operations. PACCAR gained $432.4M cash from operations. It is important to check this to see where the company is getting its money from.

Growth companies (typically most tech companies) spend heavily on investing activities and this figure was negative at $-1.97B for PCAR stock. Sometimes a company might have a negative overall cash flow which may not be really bad if it is due to investment expenses. Hence it is important to check the cash flow from investment activities.

Cash flow from financing activities shows the flow of cash between PACCAR and its owners and creditors and was $-196.5M for 2015. Financing activities allow a company to raise capital, and repay bondholders.

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